The city's origins lay in the foundation of an abbey in 673, a mile to the north of the village of Cratendune on the Isle of Ely, under the protection of Saint Ethelreda, daughter of King Anna. The abbey was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and not rebuilt for over a hundred years. The site was one of the last holdouts in England to the rule of William I: Hereward the Wake did not surrender until 1071.
There is also a legend that he sold out to the normans and married one of williams daughters.
sugarraygras 3 years ago
Hereward "the Wake", the most striking hero of Anglo-Saxon independence, was also called "the last Englishman". But, alas, his heroic fight was in vain and cruel Norman knights, supported by the Roman Church, enslaved all England. But memory of the resistance heroes is everlasting. By the way, Hereward is one of the prototypes of famous Robin Hood.
Flammerole 4 years ago